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Dancers With Ipu Heke

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  Mele Oli Komo

  Haku ‘ia e Kepā Maly - Composed by Kepā
  
  Eia mākou i mua kou alo, - Here we are before you,
  
  Nā hoa ‘āina, ‘imi i ka pono. - Friends of the land, seeking good.
  
  E a‘o mai mākou i ka hana, - Teach us what is to be done,
  
  E ola i ka ‘āina ‘o Kīlauea. - That the land of Kīlauea will have life.
  
  from BioBlitz 2015

  Duration:

  29 seconds

 

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  Preserving the Ruins of the Hawaiian Tree Fern Industry

  An in-depth look at the Pulu Station in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park's remote Kīlauea East Rift Zone.
  
  

  Historic photo credits:
  
  Whaling ships
  Photo title: "Les fregates l'Astrolabe et la Boussole a Hawai en 1786"
  Source: Gallica.fr
  
  Photo title: "Judge Lord Kaina"
  Source: 1974 Olson, Gunder, "The Story of the Volcano House." Petroglyph Press.
  
  Photo title: "Hawaiian family in front of thatched grass house"
  Source: Hawaii State Archives, Call number PPWD-6-3.010
  
  Photo title: "Native Hawaiian grass huts in the woods"
  Source: 1901 Report of the Governor of the Territory of Hawai'i
  
  Photo title: "Keauhou landing sketch"
  Source: de Varigny, Charles, 1981 "Fourteen Years in the Sandwich Islands, 1855-1868." The University Press of Hawai'i and the Hawaiian Historical Society, Honolulu.
  
  Photo title: Historic image of Makaopuhi Crater
  Source: Geoffery Mowrer collection
  
  All other photos courtesy of NPS

  Duration:

  6 minutes, 22 seconds